Saturday, November 15, 2014

Westminster Paedophile Ring Investigated Over Murder Links

Detectives investigating allegations of a paedophile ring with links to Westminster are now examining connections to a possible murder, the Metropolitan Police has said.

Scotland Yard launched Operation Fairbank two years ago to probe suggestions that high profile political figures had been involved in organised child sex abuse in the 1970s and 1980s.

But now officers have set up a new strand of the inquiry, named Operation Midland, after being passed information about alleged murders that may have been connected with the paedophiles.

Scotland Yard is looking at claims that an alleged paedophile ring with links to former government figures, could have been involved in a murder

November 1983 – Conservative MP Geoffrey Dickens sends 40-page dossier to then Home Secretary Leon Brittan detailing alleged child abusers within the British Establishment. It contains the names of Cyril Smith and other senior politicians.

November 1983 – Mr Dickens tells his family “That’s it now. Let it all begin. This is going to blow it all apart.”

March 1984 – Mr Brittan writes to Mr Dickens to say the dossier has been assessed by prosecutors and handed to the police.

May 1995 – Mr Dickens dies with knowledge that no arrests or prosecutions have ever been bought as a result of his dossier.

September 2010 – Rochdale MP Cyril Smith dies having never been charged with any child abuse offences.

September and October 2012 – The Jimmy Savile child abuse scandal breaks fueling a litany of historical sex abuse allegations.

October 2012 – Labour MP Tom Watson claims during Prime Ministers Questions in the House of Commons that there is “clear intelligence suggesting a powerful paedophile network linked to Parliament and No10”
.November 2012 – Rochdale MP Simon Danczuk uses parliamentary privilege to claim that Cyril Smith was a “29-stone bully” who sexually abused boys. He says new alleged victims have come forward in the wake of the Savile scandal.

November 2012 – The Crown Prosecution Service revealed they considered allegations against Smith in 1970, 1998 and 1999 but rejected them on each occasions.

The CPS and Greater Manchester Police admit Smith should have been prosecuted